<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">PhD in language documentation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Division of Linguistics and
Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/hss/linguistics" target="_blank"><span style="color:#074D8F">The Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#074D8F">Nanyang
Technological University</span></a>, Singapore, invites suitably qualified
people to apply to undertake research on a hitherto undescribed (or scantily
described) Tibeto-Burman, Austro-Asiatic or Indic language of the north-east
India/Burma region, leading to a comprehensive grammatical description of that
language. This project forms part of a larger initiative to document the
languages of north-east India and adjacent regions of Asia. PhD research
funding is guaranteed for three years of candidature, with the possibility of
extension. The NTU Research Scholarship for international students starts at
SIN $2000, rising to SIN $2500 after confirmation. In addition, PhD students
can apply for further funding to cover fieldwork expenses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The ideal applicant will have a
solid grounding in descriptive linguistics and already hold an MA, or a BA with
a good Honours grade. Successful applicants can anticipate doing one year of
coursework, followed by three years of empirically-based research. After
completion of the coursework year, the candidate will undertake a 9-12 month
period of fieldwork that will involve living in the speech community to record,
transcribe and analyse linguistic data. S/he will then return to Singapore to
complete the first draft of the grammar and prepare the corpus of materials for
archiving. A second trip of 3 months will be made in the final year to check
the analysis of the data.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Interested applicants should apply
in the first instance to Dr Alexander Coupe<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:arcoupe@ntu.edu.sg" target="_blank"><span style="color:#074D8F">arcoupe@ntu.edu.sg</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to discuss a possible research
project.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For further information pertaining
to graduate study at NTU, see:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/Linguistics/Graduate/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color:#074D8F">http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/Linguistics/Graduate/Pages/default.aspx</span></a></span></p>
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color:black;mso-no-proof:yes">Division of Linguistics and Multilingual
Studies </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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minor-fareast;color:black;mso-no-proof:yes"> Nanyang Technological University<br>
HSS-03-53, 14 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 637332 <br>
Tel: (65) 6592-1567 </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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